philistinism

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philistinism

noun philistinisms

countable, uncountable A materialistic attitude accompanied by ignorance of artistic or cultural matters. It's impossible to tell the story of flamenco without talking about Lorca, who found in it a source of inspiration in a lifelong political-cultural-sexual struggle against bourgeois philistinism.

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noun philistinism

Português	filistinismo
Français	béotisme
Deutsch	Banausentum, Banausie, Philisterei, Spießbürgertum
Русский	меща́нство meščánstvo, фили́стерство filísterstvo

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@misc{philistinism_2026,
  title = {philistinism},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/philistinism},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}